MUMBAI: The mortal remains of Kavita Karkare , wife of slain ATS chief Hemant Karkare, were today cremated at Worli in south Mumbai, a day after she died at a city hospital following brain haemorrhage. Kavita (57), whose husband Hemant Karkare was martyred during the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack, had been admitted to the P D Hinduja hospital on Saturday. She had slipped into coma and was on ventilator till yesterday when she was declared dead. "Her body was...

MUMBAI: The mortal remains of Kavita Karkare , wife of slain ATS chief Hemant Karkare, were today cremated at Worli in south Mumbai, a day after she died at a city hospital following brain haemorrhage. Kavita (57), whose husband Hemant Karkare was martyred during the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack, had been admitted to the P D Hinduja hospital on Saturday. She had slipped into coma and was on ventilator till yesterday when she was declared dead. "Her body was...

MUMBAI: Kavita Karkare, wife of the late Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare who was killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, died at a city hospital today after suffering brain hemorrhage. "Kavita Karkare has been declared brain dead on Monday morning," a statement from P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Center, where she was undergoing treatment, said. Kavita (57) was admitted to the hospital on Saturday after she suffered brain...

MUMBAI: He wore a helmet, talked on his cellphone and finally put on a bullet-proof jacket before he met his deathly fate in the country's biggest terror seize. Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare, who was probing the Malegaon blasts case, suffered three bullet injuries in his chest as he was leading the offensive against the terrorists in one of the places the ultras had holed out early this morning. The last television visuals of the...

MUMBAI: Kavita Karkare, wife of the late Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare who was killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, died at a city hospital today after suffering brain hemorrhage. "Kavita Karkare has been declared brain dead on Monday morning," a statement from P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Center, where she was undergoing treatment, said. Kavita (57) was admitted to the hospital on Saturday after she suffered brain...

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has admitted a petition challenging the decision of the Charity Commissioner to reject a proposal for registration of a social organisation in the name of Hemant Karkare for want of no-objection certificate (NOC) from the family of the late IPS officer . The petition has been filed by Rais Ahmed . On February 8, while admitting the petition for final hearing, Justice R S Gavai asked him why he wanted to name the organisation...

NEW DELHI: Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh has said that Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare , who was gunned down by militants in the 26/11 attack , called him just hours before attack and said that his life was "blighted by constant threats" from those opposed to his probe into the Malegaon blast. Speaking to reporters here, Singh said: "On November 26, 2008, at 7 .pm, just about two hours before the attacks...

MUMBAI: Alarmed by the unprecedented row over the quality of the bullet-proof jacket worn by slain IPS officer Hemant Karkare, the home department, led by senior NCP leader R R Patil, on Thursday decided to procure over 2,000 high-end bullet-proof jackets from an agency certified by the Centre. The agency is currently supplying these jackets to the Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force and National Security Guards," Patil said. "We too will buy from them too...

NEW DELHI: Union Minister A R Antulay, who is at the centre of a storm triggered by his remarks on the circumstances surrounding Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare's killing, has sent his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, highly placed sources said on Friday. 79-year-old Antulay, whose remarks created an uproar in Parliament and outside with the opposition parties demanding his removal, had sent his resignation on Wednesday night,...

MUMBAI: President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday visited the residence of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare who fell to terrorists' bullets in Mumbai and offered her condolences to his family. Patil, who arrived here yesterday from Indonesia cutting short her tour abroad by two days in the wake of the terror strikes, made a brief visit to Karkare's residence at the police quarters in central Mumbai. The President also went to the residence of encounter specialist...

It is understood that the widow of Hemant Karkare refused the cheque from Narendra Modi. It is always prudent to accept whatever is doled out when the heat is on. Few lakhs of rupees make a big difference when the only earning member of a family dies unexpectedly. Hemant and the likes who have laid down lives would be forgotten soon by the politicians. It will not be a surprise if the martyr's widow is made to run from pillar to post by the clerks and lower level officers to get the few lakhs of compensation,...

INDORE: Madhya Pradesh BJP today attacked senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh for describing Yoga guru Baba Ramdev as 'thug' (humbug), saying Digvijay himself was a political thief and had lost decency of words and language. A statement issued here by BJP Co-spokesperson Umesh Sharma, says that the All India Congress Committee General Secretary Digvijay Singh is used to making derogatory and provoking statements, which should be condemned by the society. ...

BHOPAL: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh today took a dig at Nitin Gadkari for calling him a 'chillar neta', saying that the BJP president was a 'billionaire' in his view. "I was Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for 10 long years and Gadkari who has never won an election in his life was minister for only one term in Maharashtra," he told PTI here. Singh said that despite being in politics for a long time, he was still in...

NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday furnished the record of phone call made to him by slain Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare hours before his death on the day of the Mumbai terror attacks. The senior Congress leader released the phone record of his mobile number which showed a call made from the ATS landline number 022-23087336 at 5.44 pm on November 26, 2008 evening. Armed with proof of the call, Singh...

NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has once again triggered a controversy when he attempted to decouple Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare's killing from the jehadi attack on Mumbai and asserted that the slain police official was like a "God to Indian Muslims". While the party distanced itself from the senior leader's remarks, it gave enough ammunition to BJP to charge that leaders like Singh were weakening India's fight...

Almost 25 months after 26/11, the last thing expected on India's TV news-channels on December 11 was a statement by AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh that he had spoken on the phone to the late Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare two hours before he was killed and that the senior police official had apprehended a threat to his life from perpetrators of the Malegaon blast where suspects belonging to the majority community had been arrested. ...

MUMBAI: Describing the terror attacks in Mumbai, which claimed 80 lives, as the 'worst-ever' in the city, Maharashtra Governor S C Jamir on Thursday said that the strikes targeted innocent civilians and gallant police officers. "My heart goes out to innocent people and the brave police officers who became martyrs while discharging their duty," Jamir said. Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare was among the policemen killed in encounters with...

NEW DELHI: In a veiled criticism of Union Minority Affairs Minister A R Antulay, a Muslim organisation on Sunday said that some people were casting aspersions on the killing of former Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare for "political gains". "Some people are demanding a probe into the death of Karkare to gain political mileage. Muslims are proud of Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar who laid down their lives for the country," All India United Muslim...

BHOPAL: Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday said there was no question of his going back on his recent statement that slain Maharashtra police ATS chief Hemant Karkare was receiving threats to his life from Hindu terrorists. "I continue to stand by what I said and I do not think that there is any question of my retracting it or going back on it," Singh said. The Congress general secretary said he "did not make the remarks...

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh on Friday pounced on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's remarks about Hindu terror groups being a more potent threat to India than the Lashkar-e-Toiba , arguing that his comments had weakened the country's resolve to fight jihadi terror and had 'let Pakistan off the hook'. "His comments are utterly irresponsible because in one stroke he gave legitimacy to the propaganda of terrorist groups...